Winston Salem Times

An additional $1.4 million has been pumped into the COVID-19 Response Fund for Forsyth County for non-profits that are helping others during the pandemic. 

Three dozen non-profit organizations will receive additional funding, the Triad Business Journal reported on April 21.

The City of Winston-Salem and the United Way of Forsyth County helped launch the Response Fund, according to the Triad Business Journal. The first round of funding totaled $3.5 million.

Of that donation, $2.6 million went to the local non-profits, according to the Triad Business Journal. The City of Winston-Salem donated $1 million to the Response Fund along with other private individual donors, corporations, and foundations.

Despite the donation amounts received, more is needed to continue aiding non-profits to help the communities they serve.

Cheryl Lindsay, spokesperson for the COVID-19 Response Fund, told the Triad Business Journal, “Unfortunately, the needs in our community are still greater than our current financial  resources, so we’d welcome continued support of the COVID-19 Response Fund to be able to make more grants in the future.”

Eligible non-profits are helping their community members with financial assistance, food assistance, shelter, housing, etc.

ABC of NC Child Development Center received $40,000 and they plan to use the money to help autistic children maintain essential autism programming during the health crisis, according to the Triad Business Journal.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Services, Inc. received $15,000 to fund technology that will allow college mentoring to high school students with socioeconomic barriers and opportunity gaps, according to the Triad Business Journal.

City with Dwellings received $100,000 to continue providing overflow shelters for the homeless, according to the Triad Business Journal.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2020/04/21/second-wave-of-forsyth-county-fund-grants-another.html